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How to Make Samosas and Mint Chutney with Kids

Traveling the globe with kids can be such fun. In this article we’re featuring India! Explore how to create Indian recipes with kids including Samosas and Mint Chutney that are easy and delicious.

Plus discover a few more ways to learn about India.

Are you ready to explore India?

Indian Samosas on plate

Learning About India with Kids 

Welcome to “Around The World in 12 Dishes“. We will be taking you on a journey around the world, exploring 12 different countries with our children, by cooking 12 dishes with them. One for each country we visit.

We started our journey the same way Phileas Fogg did in London, UK, and Stockholm, Sweden continued on to Moscow in Russia. Now our next stop is New Delhi, the capital of the exotic sub-continent of India!

Here’s where we’ve traveled so far on our journey…

 Around the World in 12 Dishes

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India Recipes for Kids

For our first cooking adventure in India, we picked some kid-friendly recipes and tasks that your child can do in the kitchen with you as they learn about Indian Food. We invited a family over for an Indian Family dinner. I had my 5-year-old daughter help me prepare the meal.

Here are some additional options for the best Indian Recipes to Make with Kids.

Mint Chutney Recipe

First, we started by making a Chutney. My daughter went to the garden and picked the coriander and mint and then rinsed and washed them to make Mint Chutney for our Samosas. Keeping safety rules in mind first, she put the fresh herbs into the food processor. 

Then she added a small pinch of salt and red pepper and a dash of lemon juice and water. Then it was time to close it up and push the on button.

Once that was complete she helped me arrange the sliced cucumbers and carrots onto the serving platter for our Indian Salad. My daughter arranged these all by herself, it’s just her way she’s very methodical.

Indian Recipes for Kids to make as they learn about the world with food. This recipe features how easy it is to make mint chutney with kids

Using fresh vegetables is one way to make Indian food a little less spicy and a great way to get veggies in. 

Now it was time for our guests to arrive for a little cooking fun! We invited a friend and her family for an Indian dinner. 

We decided to make Samosas together with the girls to teach them how to make an Indian dish. With just a little prep work it was super easy. 

Want to start first with just exploring Indian spices, try these tasty Masala fries.

Indian Recipes for Kids to make as they learn about the world with food. This Recipe Features delicious Indian samosas.

Kid-Friendly Samosa Recipe

  1. First, boil your potatoes and dice up the onions. 
  2. Then mix them together and add 3 spices. Salt, red pepper, and garam masala. Add the spices depending on your family’s liking. We added just a pinch of each, enough to make sure all the potatoes had a little color to them. 
  3. Then we used Won Ton Wrappers to create our Samosas. They are so easy to use with the kids and cook very easily. When making samosas usually you would use Mata flour, which is like a white all purpose flour mixed with water and oil. Here’s an authentic version recipe of Samosa Dough from Manjula’s Kitchen .  
  4. To create the samosas I had both girls put a spoonful of potatoes and onion mixture onto the square and then fold it in half after putting water on the edges. 
  5. Once sealed you fold it again to make a smaller triangle. 
  6. Then it’s a grown up’s job to fry the samosas until golden brown.  We had so much fun making these together! 

My friend’s son who’s 2 and my youngest daughter who’s 1. Even our husbands joined the fun so that they could have more to eat!  We were so busy eating and making Samosas that we never took a picture of the finished product actually! Guess they were a big hit! 

We used the mint coriander chutney to dip our samosas in. We also tried tamarind sauce, which is truthfully my favorite and mixed together is delicious. 

If we had even more time we would have made paneer together like this Shahi Paneer recipe. YUM!

Indian Recipes for Kids to make as they learn about the world with food.

Samosas and Mint Chutney Recipes

We had so much fun at our Indian Family Dinner and enjoyed comparing it to our Russian Family Dinner last month.  It’s fun to see how similar foods can be with ingredients and how different at the same time. 

For our Indian dinner Menu we selected to share Tandoori Chicken, Dal Makhani, Shahi Paneer, Indian Salad and Naan. 

We’ll be sharing more Recipes, Books Activities and Printables about India all month long! 

Here are a few activities about India that we’ve shared on our blog, come check them out!

Rangoli Craft with Kids for Diwali
Teaching Kids How to Cook Indian Food. A collection of Recipes with our families favorite Indian dishes.
Books about India for Kids

India Activities for Kids

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Comments

  5. Ooohhhhh, I'm gonna have fun coming back here when we study India again when we're doing international geography. I'll need to remember the veggies tip, since ours turned out so spicy.

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